Using Gmail (with Tor) is a bad idea

glymr glymr_darkmoon at ml1.net
Thu Sep 21 20:58:41 UTC 2006


i must admit i'm having trouble getting the smtp to work... i suppose it
could be expected to be too good to be true that one could have an
easily available smtp that works with tor... do tor nodes now commonly
block 587? i dunno, but i keep getting these errors and mail not sending

Anthony DiPierro wrote:
> On 9/21/06, glymr <glymr_darkmoon at ml1.net> wrote:
>> why not just use your own client with the socks proxy turned on and
>> access gmail via the pop and smtp they provide (both of which are
>> encrypted, one ssl, the other tls)?
>>
> I haven't really found any (gratis) clients I like that well, not that
> I've done a very thorough search.  Gmail's filtering does kind of
> suck, though.



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